The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-01
Higher Education of Women.

The unfortunate girls of Russia have
again met with an absolute repulse in their
endeavors to attain efficiency in advanced
studies. The Car has issued an edict
closing all schools for such purposes. and
the doors of learning have practically been
shut in the Russian girls faces.
This potentate, overshadowed by his
torical and hereditary tyranny, has in this
only shown once again his inane aversion
to modern progress.
Too much learning will make them mad
is his conclusion, and he has decided to
nip in the bud any possibility of such a
calamity arising from such sources. To
retain his throne as an absolute monarch
he depends upon the prevalence of dense
ignorance among his subjects.
knowledge is power" Power in Rus
STA means attempts to obtain freedom
freedom of thought as we'll as to be raised
above bodily serfdom.
But the Russian female mind is progress
sive and yearns for knowledge, and if she
cannot get it Mt home she will go abroad
for it. At this date many of them are
studying in Paris.
A late letter from that capital tells us he
found a nest of them In one hotel in the
central part of the city. They are plain,
sensible, persevering young women, with
an air of quiet, settled sadness. Many of
them are Jewesses, many more girls of in
fluential families who have broken away
from home and country restraints, and
come there under assumed names TO study.
Their experiences enter the domain of ro-
nance. One, the daughter of the Governor
of province, who was sent south by her
family TO be out of the way of restless
spirits with whom she came into sympa-
thetic contact in Moscow, worked her way
as a cabin-boy to Varna. She there en-
tered an hotel as boots" stayed some
time, and, when she had money enough to
buy suit of clothes suitable to her sex,
took service as a nurserymaid in family
about to start for England. When there,
she was engaged as a nursery governess in
noble family, and was taken to the coun-
try-seat of some cousins of her own high
in the English peerage. But they had no
idea who she was. As soon as she had
saved small sum she came to Paris, and,
before she could find lodging, she used
to pass her nights in a casual asylum.
Being a person of frst-rate education, she
now prepares girls waiting to be admitted
to the new high schools. Such n girl
would certainly make dangerous nihilist.
This writer does not think these student
esses are engaged in dynamite conspira-
cies, but in spirit they wish well to those
who are.
Giron, near Cambridge, is the most in
tense of English colleges. Vassar models
itself ON the ultra Harvard style, but ii
stands second to this English school for
advanced curriculum, physical culture and
college sprees.
Girton girls wear gowns and pancake
hats. Vassar girls want to, but their presi-
dent has an eye to artistic beauty and de-
MES them that luxury.
An American college girl isn't slow. but
her larks hardly go beyond surreptitious
oysters and ice-cream and harmless ex-
changes OF perfumed notes with Johnnie,
by means of a card dropped from her win
dow.
However, IL would seem higher educa-
ton was in danger OF being thrown to the
poodle dogs and Girton abandoned when
its girls held an Irish wake over the re-
mains of pet turtle that had died from
too much feeding.
Then. too, we learn that the English
sweet girl graduate amuses herself blow
ing soap bubbles innocent employment